Sets a variety of Keyboard Maestro variables.Prompts me for a short text to be used as the todo title.(That script simply executes some AppleScript, which I’ve included below.) It executes a Keyboard Maestro script called “Get Message URL” which calculates the URL to the currently selected Mail message.Specifically, here’s what the script does: Using Keyboard Maestro, I was able to create a script that, when executed, creates and sends a custom-built email to my OmniFocus Mail Drop-and containing a direct link back to the original Mail message. Keyboard Maestro to the rescueĪs with so many challenges I’ve faced when working on a Mac, a solution was found using the wonderful Keyboard Maestro macro application. That’s certainly useful-and beyond just creating todos from Mail.app messages-but it doesn’t address the particular need I have to be able to efficiently get back to the original Mail messages from linked todos. Those new todos are named according to the message’s subject, and have their “Note” field pre-populated with the message’s content. If you use Omni’s proprietary system to sync your OmniFocus data, you can create a special email drop-box address.Įmail messages arriving to that address on Omni’s servers are automatically added as todos in your OmniFocus inbox. In lieu of auto-fill, what OmniFocus does support is something called “Mail Drop”. Unfortunately, OmniFocus’s equivalent Quick Entry feature doesn’t provide the capability to automatically link to selected Mail messages.īeing able to quickly get back to the original email message-for replying, or accessing an attachment-is critical for me, and so this missing functionality was nearly a show-stopper. In Things, when the “Quick Entry with Auto-Fill” feature is invoked, any messages currently selected in Mail.app gets auto-linked in the newly created todo, as you can see here: Many, if not most, of the todos I create are related to email messages. There was, however, one critical workflow problem to be solved- creating todos linked to Mail.app messages. Switching from Things to OmniFocus involves a mental shift from “Projects, Areas & Tags” to “Projects, Contexts & Perspectives”-but beyond that, the transition has been pretty smooth. I’ve pretty much given up hope that Things 3 will be released within my lifetime.
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OmniFocus 2 for the Mac was released yesterday-delivering feature and UI parity with its wonderful iPad cousin.Ģ. Today, I’m switching back to OmniFocus for two reasons.
About a year ago, I switched from OmniFocus to Things, in part because of a dislike of the OmniFocus Mac app.
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